Word: naktong
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Second Threat. There were other danger spots along the front. The week's fiercest battle developed near Changnyong, where the Communists put their whole 4th Division across the Naktong River. Early last week Major General John Church's war-weary 24th Infantry Division had attacked the Red bulge, but in the face of withering enemy artillery fire the 24th recoiled. To bolster them General Walton Walker pulled the U.S. 1st Marine Brigade back from its precarious advanced position near Chinju on the southern front (where their chief objective of breaking up the Reds' south-coast drive toward...
TIME Correspondent James Bell was with the U.S. Marines on the Naktong front last week. His report...
...They Like Girls' Pictures." Roy Manring and his platoon were defending a position near Hill 303, a bleak bump in the terrain east of the Naktong River, a few miles northeast of battered Waegwan, when the enemy began to infiltrate the U.S. lines. Roy's platoon leader asked battalion headquarters for reinforcements, and was told that 60 South Korean soldiers would move up shortly...
That night the North Koreans tried to march their prisoners across the Naktong, but U.S. fire stopped them. "If you slipped they kicked you," said Pfc. Manring. "We started calling 'Mizu, mizu!' That's Jap for water. But they said 'No, no, American planes go tatatata.' Boy! Are they afraid of airplanes! When our planes come over they kept real quiet and gave us branches to put over our heads...
...Last week, for the first time in the Korean war, the 6-293 were turned out to make a mass tactical strike. Ninety-eight Superforts of Major General Emmett O'Donnel's Far Eastern Air Force Bomber Command hit Red positions along the west bank of the Naktong River near Waegwan...